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Docket Numbers: ER06–1562–000.
Applicants: American Electric Power
Service Corporation.
Description: Indiana Michigan Power
Co submits a third revision to its
Interconnection and Local Delivery
Service Agreement 1262 between
Wabash Valley Power Association and
AEP.
Filed Date: 9/29/2006.
Accession Number: 20061003–0154.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time
on Friday, October 20, 2006.
Docket Numbers: ER06–1563–000.
Applicants: American Electric Power
Company.
Description: American Electric Power
submits a revision to its Repair and
Maintenance Agreement between
Indiana Michigan Power Co and Wabash
Valley Power Association.
Filed Date: 9/29/2006.
Accession Number: 20061003–0155.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time
on Friday, October 20, 2006.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211
and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date. It
is not necessary to separately intervene
again in a subdocket related to a
compliance filing if you have previously
intervened in the same docket. Protests
will be considered by the Commission
in determining the appropriate action to
be taken, but will not serve to make
protestants parties to the proceeding.
Anyone filing a motion to intervene or
protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. In reference
to filings initiating a new proceeding,
interventions or protests submitted on
or before the comment deadline need
not be served on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at http://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with Internet access
who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the intervention or protest to the
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First St. NE., Washington, DC
20426.
The filings in the above proceedings
are accessible in the Commission’s
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eLibrary system by clicking on the
appropriate link in the above list. They
are also available for review in the
Commission’s Public Reference Room in
Washington, DC. There is an
eSubscription link on the Web site that
enables subscribers to receive e-mail
notification when a document is added
to a subscribed dockets(s). For
assistance with any FERC Online
service, please e-mail
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–16803 Filed 10–10–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. AD07–1–000]
Billing Procedures for Annual Charges
for the Costs for Administering Part I
of the Federal Power Act; Notice
Reporting Increase in Municipal Costs
for FY 2005 Actual and FY 2006
Estimated Hydropower Administrative
Annual Charges
October 3, 2006.
1. Municipal licensees have expressed
concerns regarding the substantial
increases they have observed in their
Statement of Annual Charges issued on
August 4, 2006. Specifically, licensees
are concerned with the amounts
assessed for the current year’s
Administrative Charge and the prior
year’s Adjustment of FERC
Administrative Charge. The increase in
these charges is primarily attributable to
a substantial increase in the proportion
of direct labor hours staff charged to
municipal projects in FY 2005. The
purpose of this notice is to provide
licensees with information regarding the
Commission’s process for assessing
these charges and how this increase in
direct labor applicable to municipal
projects resulted in the increases
observed on the August 4, 2004 billing
statements.
Components of Administrative Annual
Charges
2. The Federal Power Act requires the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
to assess annual charges against
licensees to reimburse the United States
for the costs of administration of the
Commission’s hydropower regulatory
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program.1 The Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1986 provided
FERC with the authority to ‘‘assess and
collect fees and annual charges in any
fiscal year in amounts equal to all of the
costs incurred by the Commission in
that fiscal year.’’ 2 Each fiscal year the
Commission estimates the total costs of
its operations for the current year. These
estimates are the basis for the current
year’s Administrative Charge which is
reflected on the annual billing
statements as such. In addition, the
Commission determines the actual
operating costs for the prior fiscal year,
and the prior year’s Administrative
Charge is adjusted either upward or
downward for the difference between
the prior year’s actual costs and the
prior year’s estimates. These
adjustments to the prior year’s costs are
then reflected as the Adjustment to
FERC Administrative Charge on the
annual billing statements.
Allocation Methodology for
Hydropower Projects
3. The total costs for the hydropower
regulatory program consist of both
direct and indirect costs. Once the
Commission calculates estimated and
actual program costs, it allocates these
costs based on direct time charged by
Commission staff to designated time and
labor codes for municipal and non-
municipal projects.3 Annually the
Commission allocates current year
estimated costs and prior year actual
costs based on the direct labor
proportions of staff time recorded
against municipal and non-municipal
projects in the prior fiscal year.
Applying this methodology allows the
Commission to utilize credible
historical information for the allocation
of current year estimated costs and
provides the relevant data needed to
appropriately affect the prior year
downward or upward adjustment when
allocating the prior year’s actual costs.
4. With regard to the August 4, 2006
statements, the Commission allocated
the cost bases for the current year’s
Administrative Charge and the prior
year’s Adjustment to FERC
1 16U.S.C 794–823b.
2 Pub. L. 99–509 § 3401, 100 Stat. 1874, 1890–91
(1986) (codified at 42 U.S.C. 7178).
3 The Commission has implemented within its
time and attendance system designated codes
which segregate staff hours spent on municipal
projects from staff hours spent on non-municipal
projects. In calculating direct labor proportions, the
Commission aggregates the hours recorded against
municipal and non-municipal time codes. The
number of hours charged to municipal codes is
divided by this aggregate total to derive the
municipal proportion used to allocate hydropower
program costs. The number of hours charged to
non-municipal projects is treated similarly to derive
the non-municipal proportion.
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Administrative Charge using FY 2005
direct labor proportions. In FY 2005,
Commission staff spent 25% of the total
hours charged to licensing of
hydropower projects on municipal
projects. Conversely, 75% of the total
hours charged to project licensing were
attributable to work on non-municipal
projects.
Impact of FY 2005 Direct Labor
Allocation
5. The significant increase in
municipal project costs for the FY 2006
Administrative Charge and the FY 2005
Adjustment to FERC Administrative
Charge was the result of more direct
time charged to hydropower municipal
time and labor codes in FY 2005 then
in FY 2004. Since the Commission used
the FY 2005 municipal allocation of
25% to allocate its FY 2006
Administrative Annual Charges,
licensees will likely notice an increase
to their current year Administrative
Charge when compared to previous
years. Additionally, since the
Commission used the FY 2004
municipal allocation of 11% to allocate
its FY 2005 Administrative Charge, the
FY 2005 Adjustment to FERC
Administrative Charge reflects both a
significant adjustment resulting from a
14% increase in the proportion of direct
labor allocated and a minor upward
adjustment related to the difference in
actual and estimated costs previously
assessed in FY 2005.
Review of Hydropower Program Costs
6. After calculating the annual
charges, the Commission reviewed the
total FY 2005 and FY 2006 hydropower
costs and the applicable time and labor
categories for the hydropower program
which clearly differentiates between
municipal and non-municipal activities.
Overall, total costs for the hydropower
program were found to have only small
increases between the fiscal years. There
were no new programs added in the
hydropower area in FY 2005 or FY 2006
that would have contributed to this
increase, thus the small increase in total
hydropower program costs. However,
since there was more direct time
charged to municipal time and labor
codes in FY 2005 than in FY 2004,
municipal licensees received a larger
proportion of the total hydropower
program costs.
7. The Commission’s hydropower
program workload depends on how
many hydropower applications or
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inspections are pending before the
Commission in any given year. The
Commission can not predict with exact
certainty which licensees will file each
year. In addition, the complexity of the
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projects under review and the length of
time it takes to process a hydropower
application could impact the workload
proportions. hydropower program
workload is cyclical, so in some years
there may be more municipal projects
pending versus non-municipal projects.
While this increase does represent a
large swing between municipal and
non-municipal direct-labor hours, our
review did show a history of cyclical
fluctuations in this split.
8. For questions concerning this
notice or any other annual charges
issues, please direct inquiries via e-mail
to annualcharges@ferc.gov or call Troy
Cole at (202) 502–6161.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–16785 Filed 10–10–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP06–442–000]
UGI LNG, Inc.; Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Assessment
for the Proposed Temple LNG Plant
and Request for Comments on
Environmental Issues
October 4, 2006.
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
environmental assessment (EA) that will
discuss the environmental impacts of
the operation of facilities for the Temple
LNG Plant involving operation of
facilities by UGI LNG, Inc (UGI LNG) in
Berks County, Pennsylvania.1 This EA
will be used by the Commission in its
decision-making process to determine
whether the project is in the public
convenience and necessity.
A fact sheet prepared by the FERC
entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas
Facility On My Land? What Do I Need
To Know?’’ was attached to the project
notice UGI LNG provided to
landowners. This fact sheet addresses a
number of typically asked questions,
including how to participate in the
Commission’s proceedings. It is
available for viewing on the FERC
Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov).
Summary of the Proposed Project
UGI LNG seeks authorization to
acquire and operate in interstate
commerce an existing liquefied natural
1 UGI LNG’s application was filed with the
Commission under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act
and Part 157 of the Commission’s regulations.
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gas (LNG) peak-shaving facility in Berks
County, Pennsylvania, and certain
appurtenant pipeline facilities
interconnecting with the interstate
facilities of Texas Eastern Transmission
L.P. The Temple LNG Plant is presently
owned by UGI Energy Services, Inc.
(UGIES). The existing Temple LNG
Plant consists of:
• 250,000 Mcf (73,000 Bbl) storage
tank,
• A vaporization system designed to
deliver up to 50,000 Dth/d and a
liquefier designed to deliver 4,000 Dth/
d, and
• Approximately 5,000 feet of 8-inch-
diameter pipeline.
No additional land is required since
UGI LNG does not propose any new
facilities or any modifications to
existing facilities. The general location
of the project facilities is shown in
Appendix 1.2
Land Requirements for Construction
The existing Temple LNG Plant
consists of about 71.59 acres of land. No
new facilities would be constructed as
part of UGI LNG’s application.
The EA Process
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to
take into account the environmental
impacts that could result from an action
whenever it considers the issuance of a
Certificate of Public Convenience and
Necessity. NEPA also requires us to
discover and address concerns the
public may have about proposals. This
process is referred to as ‘‘scoping’’. The
main goal of the scoping process is to
focus the analysis in the EA on the
important environmental issues. By this
Notice of Intent, the Commission staff
requests public comments on the scope
of the issues to address in the EA. All
comments received are considered
during the preparation of the EA. State
and local government representatives
are encouraged to notify their
constituents of this proposed action and
encourage them to comment on their
areas of concern.
Because the Temple LNG Plant is an
existing facility and no new additions or
modifications are proposed, the EA will
focus on the operation of the proposed
project, the cryogenic design aspects of
the plant, and public safety.
2 The appendices referenced in this notice are not
being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all
appendices, other than Appendix 1 (maps), are
available on the Commission’s Web site at the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., Washington,
DC 20426, or call (202) 502–8371. For instructions
on connecting to eLibrary refer to the last page of
this notice. Copies of the appendices were sent to
all those receiving this notice in the mail.
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